Fritz Panzer creates this oddly creepy but very cool diminishing wire escalator.
inspiration
Yasuaki Chiba rethinks the everyday cloths hanger making it a bit easier to slip that second arm into the shirt. Pretty clever.. I’ll have to try it out. Buy it here.
How awesome! Seongyong Lee added a little air bubble to his utensils designs which float them like buoys with handles in the air, and a nice scooper for your punch bowl!
Juan Enriquez (2008) Pop!Tech Pop!Cast from PopTech on Vimeo.
Juan Enriquez presents a vigorous 10 point commandment plan to save the US economy for our next president during Pop!Tech 2008. Watch the video here with more info on joining to help out including a pdf of his presentation!
Copied from the current wiki here:
IMMEDIATE ACTIONS FOR THE COUNTRY AND PRESIDENT ELECT DURING THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION’S FIRST 60 DAYS:
1. We have to save the dollar (AAA rating in jeopardy)
2. We have to fundamentally and brutally restructure debt
3. All entitlements are fair game.
4. Cut back military by 2% per year for ten years
5. Cap medical costs at 18% GNP (going to be a cat fight, but we need to have it)
6. We have to triage our support for companies (don’t attempt to save dying whales)
7. The program has to be fundamentally American, meaning it must once again limit the federal government.
8. Simplify and broadly apply Sarbanes Oxley – apply it to government, apply it to hedge funds
9. We will invest in growing start up companies (which create the most jobs – this is where the economy is growing)
10. We will treat education as a varsity sport (and continue to recruit foreign PhDs)
I’m off to Camden Maine again for this years “Pop!Tech 2008:Scarcity and Abundance” Conference! This years lineup of speakers and musicians are awesome! I’m not sure how much time I’ll have to post, but make sure to watch the FREE live online video stream!(9am-6:30am EST) Check out the entire speaker list and schedule here, otherwise I’ll list a few highlights below:
– Chris Anderson, Editor Wired magazine
– Stephen Badylak, Regenerative Medicine
– Malcolm Gladwell, Tipping Point, Blink, New Yorker
– Van Jones, human rights and civil rights activist
– Jay Parkinson, online doctor
– Clay Shirky, all things web
– Frank Warren, Post Secret Founder
– Benjamin Zander, renaissance musician
– Imogen Heap, musician
– Erin Mckean, lexicographer
– Chris Jordan, photographer
– the unusual, suspenseful, mind blowing, amazing!!!
I found this fish blimp video amusing. A simple change in an object transforms the space surrounding it. Before it was just a blimp floating in thin air. Add some fins and some movement to that object and the space once perceived as air becomes more fluid, thick, and water like. Perception, Perspective, fun…all part of design.
Neat ABC Flip book by Marion Bataille! Buy it on amazon here!($13, what a steal!)
Get your morning box of “Obama O’s” or ” Cap’n McCains” in from the inventive crew at AirbedAndBreakfast.com launching a tasty limited production (500) of election cereal boxes with real cereal, fun facts, a definite conversation starter, and their very own online jingle (Obama O’s Jingle, Cap’n McCains Jingle) . Choose from the political flavors of “Hope in Every Bowl”, a “Maverick in Every Bite”, or both if your seeking a taste in history.
A box of these goodies cost $39 with 5% of the sales to each campaign.
I discovered these delicious new creations during RISD’s alumni sale event this past weekend running into co-founder Joe Gebbia (RISD ID ’05) who’s also founded Critbuns.com, Ecolect.net, and now AirbedAndBreakfast.com
I took a few pics with Joe after the jump… including my Freshmaker selection!
I’m not sure what Nudibranch’s are exactly, but what I am mesmerized by is how photographer David Doubilet takes these incredible images underwater seemingly CGI or at least a bit of photoshopping, but sweet goodness, David strapped a mini lightbox to his camera and went right down in the ocean to shoot! Awesome! I need a large portable lightbox strapped to my camera now! Check out the rest of the article and images via National Geographic!
via National Geographic (NotCot)
Picture: “Sometimes the Box is better!”
In the picture above, the box is better because the kid jumps into a toy, rather than playing with a toy. Big cardboard boxes somehow invite humans to draw, rip, manipulate, and imagine. Brown boxes don’t seem to have rules. We can make them what we want. As kids, we imagined and created more. As grown ups, we adapt to what things are for. In the world of creativity, remember that “perspective” is key to creativity. Just because something is made to do “this” does not mean it can’t do “that”.
– Tech: SpaceX Falcon 1 makes it to orbit! Amazing. Congrats! Videos here. (Falcon 1 is the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to orbit the Earth)
– Politics: Obama helps total stranger pay for airport luggage back in 1988. Awesome! Obama rocks!
– Odd: Japaneses florescent bulb wrestling. I don’t get it?
– Fun: Heelys makes grownup size’s now. I saw a few adults sporting these in the past few weeks. At first I was like, these are for kids, but then realized, these can be mad fun, though they still look kinda ugly. Grab a pair, and make your boring co-workers where them Here’s a video, or some videos on the heely site.
– Sleep: The art in sleeping. When your tired, you somehow find a way to sleep no mater whee you are!
– Videos: “How and engineer folds a shirt” vs someone in “Japan folds a shirt“. Personally, I like Japan style. And yes, there are those that have the bunch it up and pack style.
If your like most designers out there you breathe Adobe products yet have your slight nudges on features or GUI implementations. If so, creators Adam Meisel & Erik Frick have created the “Dear Adobe” website allowing you to gripe about all your devilish encounters. Go gripe about something, go see what others complain about, see the top gripes, and feel good your not the only one unhappy with adobe, though they rock!
My brain hurts after watching this incredible lecture “Predicting the next 5000 days of the web” by Kevin Kelly (of Cool Tools) from the EG 2007 conference. The web is seriously only 5,000 days old. It’s changed our world forever. What’s to come in the next 5,000 days?!!!
“There is only One machine.
The web is its OS.
All screens look into the One.
No bits will live outside the web.
To share is to gain.
Let the One read it.
The One is us.”
All very very true, but still,my head hurts but I love it! Now go watch this video!!!!
via TEDtalks